Bruiser with a Soft Center: Can be quite tender and loving when he wants to be, especially to River.After the war, he alternates between this, Hurting Hero, and Knight in Sour Armor. But despite all the stress, he somehow managed to stay pretty upbeat. It's hard to tell if he's an adrenaline junkie, genuinely considered it just a big adventure, was all an act, was a coping mechanism, or if he was completely unhinged. Broken Hero: In addition to his A Father to His Men tendencies, and considering what happened to his homeworld, he was ridiculously, recklessly cheerful during the war.Broken Bird: As a result of being a Shell-Shocked Veteran.Why don't it ever go smooth?" In the Serenity Tabletop RPG, his character starts with the disadvantage "Things Don't Go Smooth". Every single job screws up somehow and usually from no fault of his own very often, he's just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Born Unlucky: If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.Big Damn Heroes: Several times over the course of the series, particularly in " Safe" when he rescues River and Simon.He's got absolutely no problem with the fact she can't fight or use a gun because that means she'll stay out of the fighting and, hopefully, stay safe. Big Brother Instinct: Kaylee is his little "mei mei".Beware the Nice Ones: Mal is, for the most part, a reasonably kind guy, but if you harm his friends or him, you're going to regret it.Even when they're not shouting, they're snarking. They argue about everything from Inara's career choice to Mal's career choice, his leadership abilities, her clients, her willingness to help out, his overprotective zeal. Belligerent Sexual Tension: Mal and Inara are almost completely incapable of having a civil conversation.You turn on any of my crew, you turn on me! If it's a concept you can't seem to wrap your head around, then you got no place here! You did it to me, Jayne. Jayne: What're you takin' it so personal for? It ain't like I ratted you out to the Feds! He doesn't take kindly to anyone betraying him or members of his crew in " Ariel", he nearly had Jayne Thrown Out the Airlock after discovering he tried to sell Simon and River out to the Alliance for the reward money:.He once punched Simon for making that mistake. Accusing him of being in league with them tends to make him very temperamental very fast. The civil war has been over for six years, but he still doesn't appreciate being associated with them. He volunteered to join the war on the Independents' side against the Alliance, that's how convinced he is that the Alliance is wrong.Beard of Sorrow: The thick beard he sports in the Earth-That-Was comics likely counts.It can get him into trouble as the coat is symbolic of the "Browncoat" resistance. He wears the brown coat from his military days in the Independents. Although he runs into better fighters fairly regularly, he will get back up and fight them again, without hesitation. Badass Longcoat: Mal is a competent fighter and a determined man.It may not be in God, but it can be in justice for the settlers on Miranda. By the time of Serenity he's come to the conclusion that he can no longer live his life without belief in something.See the conversation under Establishing Character Moment and Übermensch below. He answers to no laws or belief system anymore - only to his own sense of right and wrong.Ever since, he has been eking out a living on the wrong side of the law, at the helm of the Firefly-class ship Serenity, defiantly named after the valley where the Alliance's victory was sealed. He has been left bitter by the Independents' loss he never quite recovered from seeing his ideals crumble around him. He fought under the rank of Sergeant for the Independents, the side that lost to the Alliance. Firefly leaf on the wind hole in chest series#"We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty."Ĭaptain Reynolds is a Browncoat - a veteran of the stellar civil war that precedes the events of the series by six years.
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